Julie Wigg

Process driven, yet influenced by mid 19th century landscape painters and the Abstract Expressionists, Julie’s work is a personal translation of the sensory experience of painting. Experimentations in colour, paint, spontaneity and the element of chance, tempered by constantly shifting dramas of light and movement.

Surface layers overlap, and earlier work often lies hidden beneath the one seen, their presence gradually uncovered by the sanding of the surface, as natural erosion occurs. Contour lines are scratched into the picture plane emulating the dynamic natural lines of the landscape, revealing trace elements, mapping the journey taken.

Looking upwards is important, the sky often mimicking the sea (a recurring motif), is often depicted, its treacherous beauty and its capricious nature playing an important role within her work. Often the definition between the vastness of wild open spaces, land and sea merge together, becoming one.

Julie’s paintings lie on the edge of abstraction, challenging the excepted perceptions, whilst fully embracing the idea of natural environment and landscape. They reflect the real and the imagined, the ideal, experience and memory of an ever changing environment.

Julie has an Hons Degree in Graphic Design, from Norwich School of Art, later returning to study a Fine Art Degree at De Montfort University.
She is currently working towards a MA in Art History and is the owner and founder of Darl-e and the Bear.

The gallery has been a developing project for the past 6 years and has been deeply immersive, challenging, thought provoking and wonderful experience.

As well as running the gallery she has curated all the shows/exhibitions within the gallery space and at outside venues. Working alongside the artists has brought a diverse and enriching  experience and has helped inform and development her own art practice.